Few would dispute that the United States is hard to characterize as an urban nation. Yes, we'll always have New York City, but by world standards even the dens...
One of the major inventions that changed the life in cities was the railway. Another important revolution was the car. They changed the size of the cities, thei...
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By Irina Paraschivoiu (LSE) & Fabian Wenner (LSE)Despite sharing some of the common challenges faced by post-socialist cities, the experience of Bucharest o...
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By Irina Paraschivoiu (LSE) & Fabian Wenner (LSE)After the demise of socialism in the 1990s, many Eastern European and Asian states saw a wave of privatisat...
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By Irina Paraschivoiu (LSE)In June 2016, the United Nations will convene the Habitat III Conference which will set the agenda for international cooperation on u...
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By Irina Paraschivoiu“Resilience” has come to be used frequently in planning, and currently encompasses strategies dealing with economic downturns, climate chan...
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The website Changing London has an article by Will Horwitz that makes me think about how small things may be changing our cities. The city of Vancouver has rece...
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When the public disengages from local politics, what does it mean for planners and other professionals in city government? In the story of Detroit, one of the ...
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